Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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It’s not your job to get people to like you, it’s your job to like people.
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While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
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I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible
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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
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Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
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Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
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You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
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Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don’t let him down.
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